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Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, KCMG (28 April 1870 – 13 November 1931), styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer. He was one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya.
Hugh George Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere ( / ˈtʃʌmli /; born 18 January 1934), styled The Honourable Hugh George Cholmondeley from birth until 1979, is a British peer. He is a well-known figure in the evolution and development of post-colonial Kenya. He owns the vast Soysambu Ranch in Kenya.
Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere was a leader of European colonists in British East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya). Controversial and outspoken, Delamere was the central figure of the white community in Kenya. He believed that civilization could be brought to Africa only by European.
Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, PC (1662 – 18 January 1725), styled The Honourable from birth until 1681 and then known as Viscount Cholmondeley to 1706, was an English peer and politician.
Following Thomas’s death in 1979, his only son Hugh, now 5th Baron Delamere, took over Soysambu. His son, Tom Cholmondeley, faced increasing financial problems and pressure from land-hungry Kenyans, a situation exacerbated when he was charged with murder – twice.
Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley and Viscount Malpas, 1st Baron Cholmondeley of Nantwich, 2nd Viscount Cholmondeley (1662–1725) The Earldom and Barony were created with remainder failing his issue male to his brother George Cholmondeley.
29 de nov. de 2019 · The third Lord Delamere, aka Hugh Cholmondeley, had just turned 28 in 1898 when he visited Africa for the first time. Like other Europeans at the time, he was first attracted to Africa by the sheer prospect of adventure.
